KHAN YOUNIS: The Israeli military has said that its fighter jets attacked the Al Hasna school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reports. The military did not say if there were casualties resulting from the attack, but claimed “precise weaponry” was used.

“The school served as the headquarters of the terrorist organisation Hamas,” the military wrote in a post on X, without providing any evidence to support its allegations.

Two people have been killed in an Israeli strike on southern Syria, the official Sana news agency reported, citing a military source.

According to the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike targeted the service centre of a foundation affiliated with pro-Iranian groups including Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

The strike was near Sayyida Zeinab, which is home to an important Shia sanctuary and is defended by pro-Iranian militias and the army.

“At around 11:40pm, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial assault from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of positions in the southern region, killing two people and injuring a soldier,” the Sana report said.

It said Syrian air defence had also shot down some missiles, without giving further details. The Observatory, however, said that three people were killed in the strike, including an elderly woman, with another 11 injured. It had initially reported one death.

Patients in Gaza’s few standing hospitals are dying in droves from infections resulting from a lack of protective gear and soap, even when they survive their horrific blast injuries.

And health workers are facing agonising decisions, like giving up on a seven-year-old boy with extensive burns because bandages are in short supply and he’d have probably died anyway.

These are just some of the horrors witnessed by American doctors and nurses returning from the besieged Palestinian territory, who are now on a mission to spread the word about what they saw and apply pressure on Israel to allow in more life-saving supplies.

“Whether or not a ceasefire happens, we have to get humanitarian aid. And we have to get it in sufficient volumes to meet the demands, “Adam Hamawy, a former US army combat surgeon, tells AFP in an interview after a medical mission to Gaza’s European Hospital last month.

“You could give all you want, you can donate,” says the reconstructive plastic surgeon from New Jersey. “But if these borders don’t open up to allow that aid to get in, then it’s just useless.”